2% max recommended unless otherwise noted. 1% max recommended for soccer.
Only for Supporters
To read the rest of this article and access other paid content, you must be a supporter
SportsPicks
All your sports information for those investing Vegas-style in the outcomes of sports games. Predicting games against the line in all sports, especially football, American and English style.
Interested? Want to learn more about the community?
SportsPicks@SportsPicks
May 27, 2023
SportPicks NBA Preview w/ Smokehouse Mike
Saturday May 27
Eastern Conference Finals
Boston Celtics (57-25) 2nd in the East versus Miami Heat (44-38)8th in the East
Boston is a 3 point favorite and Vegas has the total at 210
Injuries: Celtics’ Brogdon, forearm, is a game time decision; Gallinari,knee, is out. The Heat’s Vincent,ankle, is a game time decision; Herro,hand, is out.
Key Players: Jason Tatum 27.7pts 10.4 reb 5.3 ast
Jimmy Butler 28.8 pts 6.7 reb 5.5 ast
Heat leads the series 3-2
Vegas early action shows 61% lean toward Celtics and 60% favor the over
SmokeHouse Mike’s Pick of the day.
MLB: Braves $line
Pirates and Mariners over 7.5
Interested? Want to learn more about the community?
What else you may like…
Videos
Podcasts
Posts
Articles
00:55:38
SEC Preview Podcast
A full breakdown of every team in the SEC, including talent analysis, coordinator concern, and schedule forecasts, with win total expectations. Enjoy!
New York Mayor Democratic Primary Update
Well, things are getting interesting.
Most of the polls up until now have shown Andrew Cuomo with a clear lead but today Emerson dropped a poll with Cuomo narrowly leading Mamdani on a first pass but after all the rounds of ranked choice voting had Mamdani ahead of Cuomo by 4. When this poll came out Cuomo's price took a plunge from mid 60s to mid 30. Later in the day a poll from HarrisX / Fix The City came out with Cuomo winning comfortable. Many are skeptical of the poll because of its crosstabs. Nonetheless, Cuomo rebounded and now both candidates are close to 50c each with the election day being tomorrow.
This has been a difficult race to read. Mamdani's momentum seems to be everywhere now, almost to an absurdly astroturfed extent. At the same time, his momentum seems to be primarily among affluent whites who are very vocal online whereas Cuomo hasn't really had a ground game but has been blitzing the TV networks. Cuomo is also polling better ...
